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National U.S. Banks Warning Customers

(TERRE HAUTE) - National U.S. banks are warning you to be on the lookout for changes in your bank account.

Earlier this week, several national banks sent customers emails explaining they were handling large scale attacks to their online networks.

Matt Gregory, of WTHI report, where your money used to be handled by hand, it can now be handled at your fingertips. From smart phones apps to online accounts your money is more easily accessible than ever before.

But with all new changes to banking, comes new ways for criminals to get your money. Just this week PNC national bank and several others announced that they've noticed a large scale attempt to hack their on line banking servers.

With what computer safety experts call a DDOS attack or distributed denial of services attack.

"Basically hackers target a particular server and basically send traffic right to that server, so what that does is basically clogs up the pipes," Rose Hulman's Nadine Shillingford Wondem explained.

The attack can make it impossible for you to access your accounts and then they access your account.